I'm not the first.

I'm not the only crazy one giving out Books of Mormon in foreign languages.

Someone else has been doing it for a longer time. They had a write-up in the January 1998 Ensign, page 68, under the "Portraits" section in an article called "A Taxi Talk", by Janet Peterson. Boston
taxi driver Bill Cortelyou, gave out over 6000 copies in 15 years in over 35 languages.

Here's a link to the Ensign article.

If that doesn't work, here's a short-cut:
http://tinyurl.com/aruwf